📷 Rokinon CV16M-MFT 16mm T2.2 Cine Wide Angle Lens: Ideal for Micro 4/3 Olympus/Panasonic Cameras Review

Beautiful bokeh and sharp subjects in every shot. It's heavy and entirely manual, so not for photographers who run and shoot.

I have a 35mm Rokinon cine lens. So I decided to order this one and give it a try. This is T2.2 as opposed to the older brother T1.5. But the build quality and the images it can deliver are amazing. I would recommend this lens to any filmmaker, regardless of budget. This is a really great lens.

This lens is a true cinema monster for my Canon APS-C DSLR. From the first photo I took I was absolutely blown away by the clarity of the image. This is my wide angle video lens. Remember that this is a fully manual (no autofocus) lens, giving you an amazingly quick course in manually focusing on moving subjects!

This lens is much sharper and has less chromatic aberration than my Canon 16-35mm lens on my BMPC4K. It's also about what a full-frame 14mm lens will be on an APS sensor, so at 16mm this lens is slightly wider than Canon's 16-35mm L lens. If you are looking for an APS lens equivalent to a 16mm full frame, I would recommend the Rokinon 10mm APS lens.

So I bought this lens for several reasons. 1. I already had versions 24, 35 and 85 of Cine and needed a decent color and contrast set for the video. 2. I was unhappy with the margin of beating Tokina 11-16 on my BMCC MFT.3 version: It's faster than Tokina. I have to say that I am very happy with this lens. It outperforms the Tokina in every way from T2 to T8 (that's all I shot) edge to edge and then center for sharpness, and it has a longer focus travel! Which is welcome if you make videos like